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Carina's avatar

Roslyn Talusan has protected her account, but has posted her PayPal requesting money for therapy after "almost 48 hours of harassment from Nazis."

This is so typical of how these things go. Talusan, a blue-check with over 10k followers, posted a photo of this obscure cookbook author and called her out (and continued criticizing her in subsequent tweets). Then when people pushed back, she cried harassment.

I'm sure it sucks to receive 6k negative replies (Twitter pile-ons are almost always disproportionate) but I hate the idea that anyone advocating "social justice" can pick fights and then immediately claim to be the victim. There's no awareness that her own tweet was hostile and probably caused this cookbook author distress.

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TheOtherKC's avatar

The impending motte and bailey is as inevitable as the dawn: "cultural appropriation isn't actually all forms of cultural mixing and exchange! Cultural exchange is good. The term 'cultural appropriation' actually means [very narrow definition, involving genuinely offensive/problematic behavior]."

I should know, I used to be the one making that argument! Except, such narrow, thoughtful definitions were never the ones applied in reality. And besides, it was perfectly possible to describe why such behaviors were toxic without invoking "cultural appropriation", those magic words that flatten the world rather than reveal its complexities.

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